Although the symbol itself is pre-christian, relics of old stone crosses that scatter Britain, generally relate to a period in history when the christian cult was sweeping the landscape and afflicting the lives of indigenous people. The archaeological stone crosses that remain tended to be positioned where earlier heathen sites were found – and as a result of this, it’s important to include them on TNA as relics marking an attempt to alter human animistic relationships with the land, to an increasingly desacralized one. These stone relics took various forms, each relating to the function of the site it meant to supplant or impress: market crosses, boundary crosses, village crosses, wayside crosses, etc.
CROSSES: Bibliography & References
- Abel Cross, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
- Acrehowe Cross, Baildon Moor, West Yorkshire
- Adam’s Cross, Saddleworth Moor, Lancashire
- Adamnan’s Cross, Camusvrachan, Glen Lyon, Perthshire
- Annel Cross, Twiston, Lancashire
- Annot Cross, Lane Bottom, Brierfield, Lancashire
- Apeland Cross, Hedon, East Yorkshire
- Atis Cross, Flint, Flintshire
- Banbury Cross, Banbury, Oxfordshire
- Barley Cross, Richmond, North Yorkshire
- Barton Cross, Barton, Lancashire
- Bingley Cross, West Yorkshire
- Black Knoll Cross, Morton Moor, West Yorkshire
- Blacko Cross, Barrowford, Lancashire
- Boskenna Cross, St. Buryan, Cornwall
- Bradshaw Cross, Nether Wyresdale, Lancashire
- Bread Cross, Banbury, Oxfordshire
- Broken Cross, Westminster, London, Middlesex
- Butt Yeats Cross, Hornby, Lancashire
- Butter Cross, Richmond, North Yorkshire
- Byrnand Hall Cross, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
- Catshaw Cross, Thurlstone, South Yorkshire
- Church Cross, Newchurch-in-Pendle, Lancashire
- Churchyard Cross, Hornsea – East Yorkshire
- Churchyard Cross, Lower Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire
- Churchyard Cross, Prestbury, Lancashire
- Churchyard Cross, St. Briavel’s, Gloucestershire
- Coombe Hill Cross, Wycoller, Lancashire
- Corwen, Denbighshire, Wales
- Cow Cross, Finsbury, London, Middlesex
- Cow and Calf Stones, East Bierley, West Yorkshire
- Cowcliffe Cross, Fartown, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
- Cowper’s Cross, Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire
- The Cross, Gussage All Saints, Dorset
- Cross Gates Cross, Slaidburn, Lancashire
- Crowan, Kerrier, Cornwall
- Curwen Hall Cross, Hornby, Lancashire
- Dawes Cross, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Deighton Cross, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
- Dull, Aberfeldy, Perthshire
- Duncroisk Crosses Stone, Glen Lochay, Killin, Perthshire
- Dyke Nook Cross, Clitheroe, Lancashire
- East Riddlesden, Keighley, West Yorkshire
- Eastwoods Cross Base, Summerbridge , North Yorkshire
- Eaves Green Cross, Goosnargh, Lancashire
- Emmott Cross, Colne, Lancashire
- Exley Head Cross, Keighley, West Yorkshire
- Eyam Cross, Eyam, Derbyshire
- Fairy Hill Cross, Rishworth Moor, West Yorkshire
- Fearby Cross, Masham, North Yorkshire
- Foldys Cross, Towneley, Burnley, Lancashire
- Golcar Cross, West Yorkshire
- Great Puddingstone Cross, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
- Greystone Cross, Blacko, Barrowford, Lancashire
- Grimeford Cross, Adlington, Lancashire
- Handsome Cross, High Bradfield, South Yorkshire
- Hangman’s Bank, Preston, Lancashire
- Hawk Hill, Alloa, Clackmannanshire
- Headless Cross, Grimeford, Adlington, Lancashire – see Grimeford Cross
- Hebden Wood Cross, Slack, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
- Herders Cross, Wycoller, Lancashire
- High Cross, Aberford, West Yorkshire
- High Cross, Elkstone, Gloucestershire
- High Cross, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- High Cross, Tottenham, London, Middlesex
- Hill Chapel Cross, Goosnargh, Lancashire
- Idol Cross, Cornholme – see Mount Cross
- Ilkley Crosses, West Yorkshire
- Keighley Cross, West Yorkshire – see Market Cross, Keighley
- Kilnsea Cross, Hedon, East Yorkshire
- Laycock Cross, Keighley, West Yorkshire
- Lilla Cross, Fylingdales Moor, North Yorkshire
- Lytham Cross, Lytham, Lancashire
- Maen Achwyfan, Whitford, Flintshire
- Maiden or Tailor’s Cross, Foulridge, Lancashire
- Market Cross, Aynho, Northamptonshire
- Market Cross, Baildon, West Yorkshire
- Market Cross, Bradford, West Yorkshire
- Market Cross, Glanton, Northumberland
- Market Cross, Glastonbury, Somerset
- Market Cross, Halesowen, Worcestershire
- Market Cross, Harewood, West Yorkshire
- Market Cross, Hastings, Sussex
- Market Cross, Hedon, East Yorkshire
- Market Cross, Highburton, West Yorkshire
- Market Cross, Kincardine, Fife
- Market Cross, Keighley, West Yorkshire
- Market Cross, Lechlade-on-Thames, Gloucestershire
- Market Cross, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire
- Market Cross, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire
- Market Cross, Richmond, North Yorkshire
- Market Cross, Skipton, North Yorkshire
- Market Cross, Thornton-le-Dale, North Yorkshire
- Marsden Heights Cross, Nelson, Lancashire
- Marsh Cross, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
- Maudlin Cross, Hedon, East Yorkshire
- Mercat Cross, Alloa – see Town Cross
- Mercat Cross, Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire
- Mercat Cross, Doune, Stirlingshire
- Mercat Cross, Stirling, Stirlingshire
- Mitton Church Cross, Great Mitton, Lancashire
- Mitton Green, Great Mitton, Lancashire
- Mount Cross, Cornholme, West Yorkshire
- Netherurd Mains, Kirkurd, Peeblesshire
- Nick o’ Pendle Cross, Sabden, Lancashire
- Oat Cross, Richmond, North Yorkshire
- Old Market Cross, Sedbergh, Cumbria
- Oxenhope Cross, West Yorkshire
- Pendle Cross, Newchurch-in-Pendle, Lancashire
- Pillar of Eliseg, Pentrefelin, Llangollen, Denbighshire
- Plague Stone, Adel, Leeds, West Yorkshire
- Port Cross, Port of Menteith, Stirlingshire
- Ralph’s Cross, Westerdale Moor, North Yorkshire
- Ratten Clough Cross, Emmott Moor, Lancashire
- Reap’s Cross, Heptonstall Moor, West Yorkshire
- Reva Hill, Hawksworth, West Yorkshire
- Rocester Church Cross, Staffordshire
- St. Andrew’s Cross, Dunfermline, Fife
- St. Fumack’s Cross, Botriphnie, Banffshire
- St. James Church, Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria
- St. James’ Cross, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire
- St. Paul’s Cross, London, Middlesex
- St. Peter’s Cross, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
- Salford Cross, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
- Sepulchre Cross, Hedon, East Yorkshire
- Shay Cross, Wiswell, Lancashire
- Slaithwaite Cross, West Yorkshire
- Stob Cross, Markinch, Fife
- Stockham Cross, Hedon, East Yorkshire
- Strand Cross, Westminster, London, Middlesex
- Stump Cross, Goosnargh, Lancashire
- Stump Cross, Haworth, West Yorkshire
- Stump’s Cross, Temple Guiting, Gloucestershire
- Swastika Stone, Kirkurd – see Netherurd Mains, Peeblesshire
- Swinden Cross, Foulridge, Colne, Lancashire
- Thursday Market Cross, York, North Yorkshire
- Tom Cross, Colne, Lancashire
- Tom Cross, Laneshaw Bridge, Lancashire
- Town Cross, Alloa, Clackmannanshire
- Town Cross, Kendal, Westmorland
- Twiers Cross, Hedon, East Yorkshire
- Upper Cross, Newchurch-in-Pendle, Lancashire
- Village Cross, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire
- Village Cross, Leighterton, Gloucestershire
- Village Cross, Powerstock, Dorset
- Water Sheddles Cross, Oakworth Moor, West Yorkshire
- Wayside Cross, Hornsea, East Yorkshire
- Whalley Crosses, Lancashire
- Wheat Cross, Richmond, North Yorkshire
- White Cross, Banbury, Oxfordshire
- Withgill Cross, Great Mitton, Lancashire